a motorcycle police officer, germaine casey, died today escorting bush back to the airport after his appearance here in town for pete domenici's fundraiser. this is an absolute tragedy--an officer's death as part of a presidential motorcade because of bush's private actions to help raise money (by using public resources) for a political ally is inexcusable. i am sickened and disgusted by this. it should not even remotely be considered acceptable for the president to jet off, use public resources and shill for other political officials. how tragic for that poor man's family.
domenici allegedly raised $434,000 at this event--is that equal to the amount it cost to fly bush here, use 200+ officers to ferry him around, pay for the lunch, etc.? and of course you couldn't put a price on the human life lost in the process. domenici claims he will repay all of the president's expenses from his campaign coffers. doesn't that make it a zero-sum situation?
please write your congresspeople about this and ask them to vote to disallow these bullshit fundraisers at the taxpayers pecuniary and corporeal expense. they probably won't listen, but i truly believe it is better to act than to not.
for new mexicans:
click here to contact sen. jeff bingaman
click here to contact sen. pete domenici
click here to contact rep. heather wilson
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